Pharma Plus: Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund
Executive Summary
Realizing that future winners in the health care world will be those companies with broad-based and comprehensive health care offerings, Merck & Co. Inc. tasked a group of executives with identifying and pursuing investment opportunities in what it calls health care adjacencies.
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